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Re:IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China by blacksmith_tb on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:24PM (#16136006)
I wonder if they couldn't find a LoRaWAN[1] option that would work for their hardware? It seems better-suited than most of the alternatives.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPWAN#LoRaWAN

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Re:IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China by yorby on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:16PM (#16136370)
the only problem with LoRa is that it is proprietary... but I just did a quick search and there appear to be open source alternatives now, like this: https://www.cablelabs.com/cablelabs-announces-open-source-lo...
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Re:IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China by detaro on Saturday January 13, 2018 @08:27AM (#16139517)
I think that's only some of the software stack, LoRa transceiver chips themselves AFAIK still only are made by a few companies, on license from Semtech? I think even with that, LoRaWAN is one of the more open and easy to get parts for LPWAN technologies though.
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